Sion Hill Lecture Theatre 05.06 A new Kilter piece is something to be celebrated. A product of their practice of working with Academia - which I doubt was in anyone’s game plan in their early Fringe appearances - turning reactions to questions about Universities’ working methods and our lives on screen into a drama in person, this managed to keep divergent views in focus whilst also having dramatic shape and an emotional resolution, although interestingly the chat after

The Mission Theatre 03.06 Dickens meets Hans Christian Andersen and a number of wild cards including Queen Victoria. Mayhem ensues. A laugh riot that firmly connected with its intended audience, who loved it: disagreeing with the popular verdict would be churlish, unhelpful and misplaced, so I won’t. Starting as it meant to go on with a manic tableau of the show’s eventual climax was a strong move, and it worked to set the mood: BSE [haha!] have clearly done this kin

Is this really Dramatic Moose’s first Fringe production? You’d not think so… It starts unpromisingly, I’d have to say. Two blokes at a table talking. This has dramatic import - we’re talking about boring and mundane lives, and this at least shows us that - plus it’s good not to believe that one of the characters is who he says he is, so the suspicion that he is somewhat cracked needs to be reinforced. Perhaps a more experienced company could have contrived to do this differen

Streets of Bath You can tell it’s a Nats promenade piece ‘cos they’re proper actors, and the costumes [OK, some of them] are really good - might have been a bit hot today mind… The characters chat naturally, a lot of the humour is delivered in scathing asides from someone used to dominating the conversation, there is a good dynamic between the players and the crowd, some embarassment-free participation and occasional invitations to be silly. The backdrops are some of Bath’s m

Burdalls Yard, Saturday 23 May What would you expect from a New Writing project? What would you even want from one? This show gives it, and generously. Five able & energetic actors [a sixth was unavailable tonight], consistently credible characters, minimal decor & props but still enough to play around with, actor-operated scene changes, all to put the most energy where it counts, there on stage. Fast moving fast talking fairly funny, er, froughout: that’s lots of Fs and no b

A première, no less. And written by its actors. An Entertainment.

Saturday 9 June 2024 - The Rondo Theatre, Bath How to characterise a show in which the protagonist comedian Catherine Bohart begins and...

Review of Dot, The Faun & the Elfin Child

Saturday 1 June, The Bell A shout-out for those who were there when the then Headmix Collective played on Walcot Street 25 years ago was...

Review of Thinking of Witch.

Tuesday May 28, The Grapes Looking like Fleetwood Mac circa 1975 [but get yourselves online to see their costumes at other recent events]...

Wednesday 29 May, The Bell Inn Take-no-prisoners hard funk, mostly guitars rather than horns, tight as a disco gigolo’s trousers, and...

Wednesday 29 May, Chapel Arts Centre Super Connected was working on us online from before the show started - not enough artists think...

The song playing as I enter the auditorium is ‘We are Family’ and it’s the perfect overture for this tale of three generations of women plus

This is a memorable slick production of an ambitious show... going out with a highly-appropriate bang.

The intimacy he has with his crowd is a joy to see... Luke's devotees will hold this one in their hearts for a while.

David Shopland gives a startling performance as Welles, fully capturing his swagger, arrogance and self-sabotaging insecurities

Will Duggan is angry but he’s not sure why. Like a buckaroo ready to buck, he may appear calm on the surface but underneath he’s simmering w

What matters in the end is the generous and celebratory message of the show - we are all artists and together we can make beautiful art. If

Mark’s stories are both poetic and down-to-earth... Despite his passion for love, Mark acknowledges that everything is not always rosy in af